ppi research

Dr Mike Radford trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford graduating in 2000. After house officer posts in Oxford and Chelmsford he completed his GP training in Chelmsford in 2004. He became a partner at Tennyson House Surgery, Chelmsford in 2005 and has been a GP trainer since 2010, regularly teaching medical students within the practice Mike joined the University of Cambridge Primary Care Unit in September 2015 as a CLAHRC Primary Care fellow and worked on the NIHR funded MelaTools programme which aims to improve timely diagnosis of melanoma by researching the use of skin self- monitoring apps by…

Sarah Rae worked for many years as a research assistant at the Cambridge Visual Development Unit before joining the CLAHRC, as a PPI Advisor, in April 2011. She is a long-term mental health service user who trained 8 years ago as Expert by Experience with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) and more recently as a Patient Leader. This led to many new opportunities including the chance to become involved in Trust research projects, working groups and staff training. She also works as a Trustee of national Mind, is co-founder of PROMISE Global and a member of the…

Alex Mendoza is a retired civil engineer with a history of involvement in health matters. He joined the East Herts Community Health council in 2000, and subsequently was elected as chair of the CHC's successor organisation - the local Health Forum. He maintains an interest in the provider side of the NHS as a member of his GP surgery's patient group and as a member Herts Urgent Care's Stakeholder Council. In 2006, the University of Hertfordshire established a Public Involvement in Research Group (PIR group) within its Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC) and he became one…

Dr Jurgen Grotz joined the University of East Anglia, School of Health Sciences as Senior Research Associate in Patient and Public Involvement in Research for CLAHRC, East of England in August 2017. With over two decades of experience in applied community research his largely interdisciplinary work has a strong focus on participative approaches and public engagement, working across the academic, public, voluntary and community sectors. He has recently co-edited the prestigious Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations (2016).

Position: Senior Research Fellow and Co-Lead for the PPI Theme in Research Theme

Dr. Elspeth Mathie has worked as Researcher in CRIPACC (Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care), University of Hertfordshire since 2005, and previously Exeter University where she gained her MA and PhD. She has over 20 years of health research experience. Since April 2014 Elspeth has been part of the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in Research Theme at CLAHRC East of England. She is a member of PIRg (Public Involvement in Research group) at University of Hertfordshire. Her past research has included NIHR funded studies in care homes focusing on end of life care and dementia (Prof.…

Dr Helena Wythe Helena has been working in CRIPACC at the University of Hertfordshire (Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care) on two CLAHRC projects from the PPI Theme since September 2014; 'IMPRESS' and 'Completing the Feedback Cycle'. Helena has worked in research since graduating in 2000. Prior to starting her PhD, Helena worked in the pharmaceutical industry (placement year), within the NHS (University College London), in academia (UCL and UH) and within social care when researching her PhD.

Professor Fiona Poland is co-lead of the Public and Patient Involvement Theme for CLAHRC EoE. Fiona's career-long concern has been to use the power of qualitative research methods to address the health and wellbeing concerns of individuals and communities. She has worked to promote collaborations and respectful working across voluntary, statutory, academic and policy boundaries especially in community settings, and to improve the lives of those who live and work with dementia. Her research projects and publications explore how and how far community connections and participation may affect access to resources for health and wellbeing. She was twice Chair and…

Dr Anne Killet's research interests are in the respectful care of older people, and in children and young people and mental well-being, with a particular interest in participative or collaborative approaches to research. Anne has recently been carrying out research into the organisational arrangements of care of older people using this approach. Anne led the CLAHRC study, 'Understanding PPI in older people's research - how best to enable meaningful PPI in research with older people living in residential settings' (CLAHRC EoE PPI Theme). Previous research projects examined collaborative community interventions and the impact of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and how this…

Anna Varley has worked as a health services researcher within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia since 2010. She qualified as a Social Worker in 2005 and has worked with a wide range of vulnerable people including older persons and sex workers. Anna worked on the CLAHRC East of England project IMPRESS (PPI Implementation study) and is currently working on NIHR funded project, PERFECTED (Peri-operative Enhanced Recovery hip FracturE Care of paTiEnts with Dementia) as a Senior Research Associate.

Dr Harriet Cooper joined the CLAHRC East of England in October 2015 with a background in medical humanities and disability studies, having recently completed a PhD thesis on literary and cultural representations of disabled children at Birkbeck, University of London. Her project for the CLAHRC Public and Patient Involvement Theme is provisionally entitled ‘Rights-based Rehabilitation: a qualitative research project co-produced with disabled people’. It will explore disabled people’s experiences of and perspectives on rehabilitation. As an academic who is moving into the social sciences following a period of cross-disciplinary humanities research, Harriet has a longstanding interest in the differences between…

Dr Julia Jones is Reader in Patient Experience and Public Involvement in the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC) in the School of Health and Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire. Julia leads the Patient Experience and Public Involvement research unit in CRIPACC and chairs the Public Involvement in Research group (PIRg) and the Service User and Carer Core Group (SUPI) which co-ordinates user and carer involvement across the School of Health and Social Work. Julia is a health geographer by background and has worked primarily in the field of mental health research for twenty…